Unit Synopsis
In this unit, you will develop a set of mental health practice capabilities (knowledge, skills and attitudes) for application across a range of service settings, recognising that mental health practice is within the scope of all registered occupational therapists. The knowledge and skills gained in this unit will enhance your understanding of inclusivity and diversity in mental health practice across the lifespan, acknowledging that practice may include non-family carers, support persons and significant others of the client/individual/person. This unit will support you to understand assessment and treatment within the context of overarching practice frameworks, mental health policies, legislation, standards, recovery principles, trauma-informed practice, and ethical issues.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
The pre-requisites for this unit are as follows: OCCT12006 Understanding the Environment OCCT12002 Occupational Justice: Local and Global OCCT12004 Occupational Performance Across the Lifespan 2
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Oral Examination | 15% |
| 2. Presentation | 40% |
| 3. Online Test | 45% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 71.43% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 21.88% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: SUTE teacher evaluations and unit evaluations.
The homework tasks in the self-directed study weeks are essential to augment learning, but some students indicated they would benefit from workshopping some of the questions in the Zoom drop-in sessions.
It is recommended that consideration be given to allowing time in the Zoom drop-ins to address some of that week's Moodle activities or reflect on the previous week's answers.
Zoom drop-in sessions included time discuss the week's Moodle activities and to reflect on the previous week's answers.
Source: SUTE comments
Some students found the volume of work in the self-paced activities to be challenging.
It is recommended that self-paced content is reviewed with consideration to structure it in a way that breaks it up into smaller components.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Articulate evidence-based practice for assessment, consumer-centred goal setting, and intervention to enable occupational performance for people with mental illness
- Apply professional reasoning for the selection and administration of appropriate assessment tools to determine the impact of a mental health condition on a person’s occupational performance and to inform treatment planning
- Integrate principles of occupational justice in the promotion of occupationally-inclusive opportunities for people with mental illness
- Articulate the key legislative guidelines, policies, recovery principles and standards that impact on occupational therapy practice in mental health settings.
- Adopt a practice approach that is trauma-informed, culturally responsive and safe, inclusive for LGBTIQA+ and gender diversity, and neurodiversity-affirming.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Oral Examination | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Presentation | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Online Test | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | |||
| 5 - Team Work | • | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | |||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |